Section 2317: The War Resumes

This incident really made Li Wei happy for a long time. In fact, he was already preparing to let his army have some conflicts with the army of a big empire, but he did not expect that the people of the Eastern Empire and the Northern Empire would cooperate so much. You guys It turned out that they started the fight by themselves. In fact, after the investigation, it was found that this matter had nothing to do with Cao's firm. It was all set up by a military family in the Northern Empire. Their purpose was to let the general who led the team It is a small thing for them to get a good promotion right. What they want is to let the eldest son and grandson of their family get the position of general. You must know that in the Northern Empire, only generals It can be said that he is a very good officer, and some other general soldiers are just doing chores for others. For ordinary people, such a position is already very good, but for such a big family, it is basically nothing. No, they don't care about such things. For them, if the direct descendants of their family reach the age of 20, they will need a general position. Ordinary people will be a general who can manage tens of thousands of people in a lifetime That’s enough, but this is their starting point. What they need is to continue to move forward. The descendants of their family have to be mixed with a general with a title. For a general, it's not just the person's problem, but even their family will have certain problems. They understand such things very well, so they arranged such a conflict. `顶`点`-novel`www`23x`com In fact, they have all been tested. Dozens of people in their family conducted an experiment, but because of the relatively small number of people, there was no such a big battle It can be said that there is only a small part of the loss ratio. It is because of this reason that they were also surprised. The general's seat has come down. There is nothing wrong with it. We are very happy.

This matter also attracted the attention of the people who used to be, and they also began to calculate this matter. What would it be like if the guards of Cao's House were to do this matter? In the end, the people from the military intelligence department gave a decent result. This is if the army of the general Cao's firm comes to do this. It is estimated that they will have a battle loss ratio of one to twenty-five. If the opponent is equipped with crossbow bolts, this number will drop to one to twenty-two, if the guards come to fight. Their result can only be more than twice as weak as this, and the people of Cao's House of Commerce have already begun to manufacture some protective things on this planet. These things are all made of monster hides. These things can resist the enemy's crossbow arrows, that is, the export crossbow arrows of Cao's House, because the impact force of that thing is too weak. Of course, such things will also cause a huge damage to people. Although it will not kill you, it is not a problem to make you lose combat power within an hour, and if you want to recover, it will probably take several months. Such a thing is not a problem for anyone. It's a simple matter, but now, compared with losing your own life, losing combat power seems to be more cost-effective. The other people from the Western Empire and the Southern Empire are not fools. They have already started to equip such things, but it is impossible to equip them on a large scale, because they do not have that much money, and since they are from the Cao Family Commercial Bank, they will not provide them with this loan Besides, their loan amount is already very strong,

If they want to get this amount of funds, they will find a way from another aspect, that is, to increase taxes. In the past, the entire empire implemented a policy of 15 taxes and 1 tax. It can be said that such a policy is very important for For them, it can be easily taken out, and the common people have no dissatisfaction with this. The first to carry out this action is the Northern Empire. Among the four great empires, the Northern Empire can be said to be the weakest One, their economy is also the worst one, if not relying on the accumulation of their ancestors over the years, they would have survived in this kind of competition, they require the common people to pay one-tenth of the tax, a sudden increase With nearly one-third of the tax paid, the life of the common people will be even more difficult, but this time not only the money of the common people will be increased, but even some bureaucrats, nobles, and even the royal family will have to pay more. Paying this money, this time the Northern Empire took such an action from top to bottom, and some ordinary people were going to make trouble. Although the tax is not very high, it is much more difficult than before. , They also need to make their own voices. If the exploitation of some people below is added, they will definitely pay more than one-fifth. At the beginning, the central government of the Northern Empire also thought of this matter. Along with this policy, there is also an inspection team with hundreds of thousands of people. Their task is to kill a group of heinous people in the entire empire. This time it is for real. The emperor of the Northern Empire also has In my own opinion, if this matter is done well, it will definitely kill two birds with one stone. Even if it offends some people, there is nothing wrong with it. First of all, get rid of those who are corrupt. Corrupt officials' money, the taxes they pay are as if there has been no increase, I believe those people will not have other ideas, and since those people usually make money everywhere, it means that these people's homes must be Very rich, as long as they are executed, the money in their family must be turned over to the treasury, which will allow the treasury to receive part of the excess money. Not many people valued the money after death , but in the end, it turned out to be as much as hundreds of billions of silver. This is something that even the emperor of the Northern Empire did not expect. Their military expenditure was settled by this thing for more than half.

It is absolutely impossible to think that they have solved the problem of military competition in this way, and soon the other three divisions of the Guards of Cao's House came out. They used a new type of method. Everyone clearly knows that one man with two horses is a common practice in the cavalry, but it is impossible for everyone to have two lightning horses. The price of the horse is 1500 taels of silver, which still needs to be purchased in large quantities. If it is in the horse market of the four empires, the price of a batch of good thunder horses may reach 3000 taels of silver. It can't be equipped on a large scale. The Eastern Empire only has a few cavalry regiments, all of which are thunder horses, and they don't have two horses. Generally speaking, his main horse is Thunder Horse. The unimportant horse can be bought casually, and the Eastern Empire’s financial resources can’t support it, but today the people from the Cao’s Commercial Bank let them know what it means to travel thousands of miles a day, because the newly formed three horses of the Cao’s Commercial Bank All the guard divisions are cavalry divisions. They are all equipped with two horses. The daily traveling speed has reached 800km. This was absolutely impossible in the past. In the past, the fastest cavalry team in the Eastern Empire was exhausted at 300km a day, and it was impossible to have the strength to continue advancing the next day. If you want to continue to advance, you must ensure that the speed is between 150 and 200km. This is already a limit speed for cavalry. If you want to continue to exceed this limit speed, it is simply impossible, but Cao Cao The three guards from a commercial firm told them that Lei Ma can reach such a speed, and Lei Ma's endurance is very strong. They continued to train for half a month and walked a full 1000km In addition, there were some other exercises in the middle. In the end, they still had more than 80% of their combat effectiveness. The people from Cao's House of Commerce were already preparing to purchase Thunder Horses in large sums. This let some tribes on the grassland know Such news, since you all came to the door, we must raise the price for such a thing, the price of Leima's grassland has suddenly increased from 1,500 taels to 2,000 taels, and in some places in the imperial capital, it is already When it reaches 3,000 to 5,000 taels of silver, less than 5 million thunder horses will be produced on the grassland a year. All the people in the Cao's Commercial Bank want it. Naturally, it is impossible for other people to have so many. After the news spread, the first people who couldn't sit still were the people from the Four Great Empires. They wanted five million? What a joke, this is a large-scale formation of such a cavalry team, and they have all seen the horror of the double thunder horse team, but they will not worry that they don't have enough horses, because they officially have their own horses The emperors of the breeding institutions and the four empires immediately asked the people of the royal racecourse to start cultivating thunder horses with all their strength. Although their cost and price are much lower, to be honest, since these things are so expensive, they can It shows that the cost of raising them is definitely not small. Because the Northern Empire has a large number of pastures, their cost price may be the lowest, but the price of each thunder horse walking out of them has reached It's 900 taels of silver, and they are very clear about this situation. If they start large-scale equipment, it will kill them. Besides, there are other things that need their attention. One thing is that this thing is not as easy as they think, even if you invest so much money, it may not be effective, and another terrible problem is that the food that Li Ma eats is different from other things , other horses can eat some forage or something. If they are on the grassland, they don’t need to worry about them, but in the inland, the forage is basically not very fresh when they are obtained. They are not willing to eat anything that is not very fresh, so they need to prepare other food for them. They need to mix egg whites with some soybeans and wheat. In this way, their meal can be as short as The comparison is astonishing.

According to the average price of the four empires, the price of an egg is about eight yuan, and they need about three eggs for a meal. The soybeans and wheat each need two catties, and what they need for a meal is 24 Wenqian's egg money plus 50 Wen's soybean money and 35 Wen's wheat money, this is still in normal times, if it is during a war, the food may be more than doubled, this is definitely not a joke, one day A horse costs 330 Wen, three days is more than one tael, and a horse costs twelve taels a month. This is a huge expense for them. A horse costs 130 taels of silver a year. According to their plan, it will require hundreds of millions of horses. If calculated in this way, it will cost hundreds of billions of silver every year. The expenses, this is not their life, what is it, just started the crossbow plan, and now something like this has happened again, do they have the ability to keep up? But if you don't do it. This matter will also be more troublesome. Didn't you see that the people in Cao's House have already started doing this? We have no chance to choose at all, and we don't even have the right to postpone it. The people in Cao's House are naturally rich and powerful, and the people in Cao's House have already decided to purchase 5 million Thunder horses every year. It is planned to build a powerful cavalry in 20 years. After the plan of Cao's House of Commerce was launched, the people of the major empires were immediately dumbfounded. It would probably take ten years for a cavalry regiment to be trained, and at least decades for an ace cavalry regiment, even if the people from Cao's House invested heavily. But to say that twenty years have produced a powerful cavalry is still a bit of an impossibly personal affair, but what happened next made them feel a little bit convinced, and they all began to step up their pace , whether these soldiers are treated or the intensity of training is something that cavalry of the major empires can't imagine. For them, the incident in front of them really surprised them all. The people from the Cao's Commercial Bank really took it seriously this time. Of course, the people from the Cao's Commercial Bank also spent a lot of money for this, and invested tens of billions of silver every year. Of course, the people from the Cao's Commercial Bank naturally did not They will suffer a loss, they have already calculated very clearly, every time they invest one tael of silver, the other people need to invest several times the money, and none of them are willing to continue with the people of Cao's Commercial Bank The arms race started, but they all understood one thing, they all clearly knew that this must be followed, and if they did not follow, they would be miserable.

In addition to the matter in front of them, the people of Cao's House will also have some other actions. First of all, continuing to improve the treatment of soldiers is another way for them. This matter is afraid that there will be no comparison. As long as there is comparison If they don’t, then their soldiers may feel uncomfortable. These people are not fools. They are all here to serve as soldiers. Why do they have so much more money than us in a month? Of course, Cao Cao The training intensity of the soldiers of the commercial firm is much stronger than theirs in normal times. They have to rest hard when they are on vacation, but they have to use all their strength during training. If they can't do that, This matter cannot continue, and each of these people understands this matter very well. It is for this reason that they all look at the banners on the side during training. They all wrote "Sweat more in normal times and bleed less in wartime." For them, they didn't understand this kind of thing in the past, but now they all understand it, they all know it clearly, The organization spent so much money on people to train themselves, hoping that when the war broke out, they would not die so quickly, and they would have more chances to survive. In the past, soldiers wanted to train You can relax a little bit now, but now they don't have that kind of thinking anymore, because just like what their officers said, if you indulge you now, then you will hate them to death when you go to the battlefield. The soldiers of the four great empires would not know about these things, but the spies of the Cao's House of Commerce are not only good at eating, they all have their own skills, and they all have their own channels. The news was released, and the result was that the soldiers of the four empires also had to strengthen their training. This training was different from when they were not training. It was a good thing that the soldiers asked for training, but this result It is to let those generals have no place for old money. In the past, they did not train when they should have been training, and the soldiers can also get more vacations. The money spent on training and not training But it's different, they can get a lot of money in a fair manner, which is a very good thing for them, but if they don't have this income, their life will not be very good, These people are also very dissatisfied. For them, their hatred for Cao's House is at its peak, and they have no source of money. They are also in charge of how people live in this place, and their life is not as good as that of a The common people are well.

In addition, there is the issue of the treatment of these soldiers. The soldiers of the four empires have already received a 10% increase in treatment, but their treatment is still too large compared with the soldiers of Cao's House The difference is that the soldiers of the four empires have also received some treatment after fighting, for example. As long as the soldiers of Cao's House start from the day they serve as soldiers. Their family members can receive 50 catties of wheat every month. If this person dies in battle, the food distribution will continue until their parents die. If the brothers and sisters in the family still have difficulties of. A report can be submitted. As long as it is true. If the parents are gone, this treatment can still go to their parents, even if you are discharged from the army. In the future, there will be 20 catties of grain every month, which is not a lot, but the problem of eating by oneself can be solved. This can also give these soldiers some sense of honor, just let them know that although they You are no longer a member of the Cao Family Commercial Bank, but the Cao Family Commercial Bank will never forget you. Naturally, the soldiers of the Four Great Empires will not be comfortable with these things in front of them. The treatment, I don’t know when it started, some of them have been eyeing this matter, and the final result is still very good, but there is no way to compare with the soldiers of Cao’s House in terms of numbers. Only ten catties, if you die, you will continue to give it away, but it will only be given for three years. As for the resignation, basically there will be nothing, just give you a little money, and the money is enough for them to live outside It will take a few months. As for other things, it is simply impossible. Such things are very simple things for them. It can be said that the households of the four empires do not know much There is no rest in the day, and they don't have much money at all. A soldier has ten catties of food a month. Take the Eastern Empire as an example. There are tens of billions of soldiers in the entire empire. This** *Every month is hundreds of billions of catties of grain, even if calculated at the cheapest price of Cao’s Commercial Bank, it is tens of billions of silver a year, and this is just the beginning, in the future There may be more, and their annual financial revenue is only four trillion silver, which will suddenly increase the budget by tens of billions, and it is also part of the military, and they are under pressure to repay their debts. It is already very big, and there is no other way at this time, but to continue to borrow. The Eastern Empire only pays as much as three trillion silver in interest to Cao's Commercial Bank every year. The agreement, even if you have money, it is impossible for you to pay off the money so easily. You must strictly follow the things stated in the contract. It is said that a month is a month. Time, one day less is not enough, we need this interest after death, of course, you can also do it according to your own ideas, that is, you don’t need our loan, and you will definitely have it in the future The right to do things that way, if you think that way, we have no other ideas, just follow your ideas.

The people of the Four Great Empires knew that this might be a bottomless pit, and they were not all fools, at least someone would see this matter clearly, and they all understood that this might be a soft knife of Cao's House Yes, if they kill people like this, they really have no other way. This is no longer a conspiracy. It can be said that this is a conspiracy. Such things are the most uncomfortable. How many meetings have been held, but there is nothing to do with the final result. They can only continue to follow the pace of Cao's Commercial Bank, and the other one is the people's livelihood. If they get all the money to the military If it goes up, there will be a lot of people’s livelihood things that cannot be done. Originally, the bridge has already reached its deadline, and the above also said that it will be repaired this year, but now it suddenly says that there is no money. This kind of thing started in many places within the four great empires. They all felt that this matter was very uncomfortable, but what can they do? They have already seen these actions of the Cao's firm. There can't be a huge improvement in words. In the future, they will be bullied to death by others. Now the military gap between them and Cao's House is already very large. In fact, many of them still feel that the biggest gap is between airships and warships. It's just that Cao's House The people here are not fools, and they also understand that even if they continue to make the navy and airships themselves, they will not spend money on them. It is impossible for the silver to be the opponent of Cao's House, so they all think that it is okay to use silver in this army, but it is not allowed in other aspects. That is because of the immediate meaning. They are destined to be dragged down to death by the people of the Cao's House of Commerce, because the people of the Cao's House of Commerce have a lot of silver, no matter how they do it, it is impossible for them to have more money than the people of the Cao's House of Commerce, if they continue to follow. The end result is that these people will all be killed. But if you don't do it now. They may be killed now. The people of the four empires understand this truth, but they all have to do it. They all think that Li Cong is much worse than Li Cong. If Li Cong wants to do something, he will do it outright, but this kid is very insidious. There is no more military action, but there are many such soft knives, and the people of the four empires have also felt that sometimes such soft knives may really kill them. In places where people are depressed, they also want to get rid of this matter, but it is obviously not so easy to do it.

The military intelligence department of Cao's Commercial Bank is not concerned about the affairs of the entire continent all the time. For them, these things in front of them are not so simple. These people pay close attention to any move of the four empires one by one. The high-level decision-making is more accurate. In the past month, they have observed another very important thing, that is, people from the four empires have begun to fight back. The first thing they have to do is to learn from the Cao family firm. The people of Cao’s House of Commerce have already established some military bases inside the four empires, but this military base is still within their territory. According to some treaties signed by the two sides, the troops of the four empires cannot be within fifty miles of them. They did not do that before, but now they have changed their approach. Some of the new armies are 50 miles away from them. In the past, the people of the four empires avoided appearing In this kind of conflict, they will retreat the army to a place of a hundred miles, because they all know that the people of Cao's House will start some wars at every turn. But I can't stand it, I don't know what happened now, how can these people do such a thing, do they already have the ability to fight against Cao's house or what's the matter? Li Wei immediately ordered the people of Cao's Commercial Bank to start checking these things. They all knew that these things might be very important, but they didn't know what was going on. Many people below were also investigating this matter, but The conclusion obtained is one, that is, the people of the four great empires are transferred normally, and Li Wei can be regarded as a person who has such a natural premonition. How is this possible? If such a thing really happens, then Why are they all directed at themselves? The official explanation is the same. They even say that this may be a coincidence. I really don’t know why such a thing happened. Anyone who is a fool can feel this. It is not a coincidence that there are tens of billions of troops around the thousands of military bases of the Cao's House, which will leave some military vacuums in other places within the four empires. Li Wei considered for a long time After a while, he also understood a little bit, that is, people from the Four Great Empires would rather give up the rule of some other places and directly besiege the people in Cao's House of Commerce. Sensing the crisis, the people on the Cultivator Continent over there have already retreated, but the people from the Four Great Empires are still united. They are their greatest enemy, so the matter in front of them is nothing. Since such a matter has occurred, it is necessary to deal with it now. All the besieged troops of Cao's House accounted for more than 90% of them. This can also be said to be a huge crisis. In the past, they would always say what kind of situation they had forced them to, but now they understand that as long as people from the four empires can go all out, it will be a huge disaster for the entire Cao's firm.

"According to our latest investigation report, scouts at military bases around the world have already detected some news. Now our 1278 military bases are surrounded by 11.9 billion armies of the four empires, including 1 billion cavalry. People, the rest are all infantry, and many of them have been equipped with new weapons. If we want to win this war, we may have to pay a huge price. Mainly because our The intelligence department did not obtain this news in advance, and there is also a big problem with our coping ability. It is no problem for the major bases to let them win some partial victories, but if they want to win a comprehensive victory It is impossible. More than 70% of our war materials are stored in the headquarters and several other areas. Many of their things are not as simple as they seem now. If you want to transport all these materials , it is not something that can be done now. Even if all our airships are stopped. If all of them are dedicated to military use, it will take three months to complete more than 80%. That is to say, in some remote areas It is impossible for us to complete this operation of the base, but there are a lot of things left behind after their death. If they walk away, they may be satisfied, but this matter requires a certain amount of risk. " Hong Lie made a simple military return, and when he was talking about the risk, he still glanced at Min De not far away. This guy didn't fight against him today. Anyway, no matter what he said in the past, this guy They will sing against themselves. Seeing that no one said anything, this guy continued to say, "According to some information we have obtained, some people in the Southern Empire have recently become uneasy. In the past, we only controlled It can be said that it is a Southern Empire on the surface. In fact, the real strength of the Southern Empire is definitely not in our hands. The people of the Southern Empire have developed a new army of about one billion people right under our noses. Moreover, the army of the Southern Empire is too close to us. Our biggest crisis now is the army of the Southern Empire. If they concentrate all the troops, it will be a huge threat to our current headquarters. Now they have at least gathered There are more than seven billion troops, and our headquarters has an army of less than 100 million people. Even according to our 1:25 battle loss ratio, it is impossible. Besides, if a large group charges , it is impossible for us to have such a great ability, so the first crisis we need to solve is here." Everyone already knew the news, but when it was said at the summit meeting, it still felt like It came out, this incident really made everyone feel slapped in the face, how could such a thing happen, there was no such thing before, for them, such a thing is really funny, before At the time, it was said that you had mastered the entire Southern Empire, but now it seems that you have mastered nothing.

Li Wei patted himself on the head a little depressed. It seems that he is really not a person who is very good at doing things. If his grandfather was here, such a thing might not happen, and it might not happen in many cases. Such a thing happened, but he is not a person who will be afraid of things. He already knows about Li Hu. It is estimated that many people in the family will be sent out after his death. If you want to build your own world on your own land, compared with them, you have already obtained a lot of good things, at least after your grandfather died, you have established a whole continent that can be regarded as a first-class power This is the Cao's House of Commerce. Although it is his own power, that is, an eighth-level magician, it is not low. As long as he can get the absorption of energy stones there, he will become a tenth-level magician. There is no problem with super magicians. Besides, there are still many masters in the Cao's House. Although there is no way to compare with the people of the four empires, they are definitely not bullied. Shit, Li Hu and the others over there have no way to compare with themselves. They are definitely relatively good, so there is no problem with such a thing. Li Wei was a good military strategist in the first place. Yes, of course he understood some of the meaning of Hong Lie's words. He stood up, walked to the front of the map, pondered for a long time, and then said, "Let's go back to the staff headquarters to make a retreat plan, we give up 30% The military base, what I mean by giving up is not a direct retreat, but asking them to return their reserves and tell them that as long as they can persist for three months, it will be our victory. The end of the war, let the people of the four empires understand that it is absolutely impossible for us Cao's business to fail. The first thing to do is the Southern Empire, and order fifteen divisions of the Imperial Guards to comprehensively attack some big cities and cities in the Southern Empire. Occupy the military hub, and the army at the headquarters will take the initiative to attack. They must not let them surround us again, order the navy to block the coastlines of the four empires, kill their navy, and then follow the inland river with the army Let the team fight for me and let them know that our Cao's firm will not lose." Everyone was afraid of Li Wei's plan, and such a thing can be said by such a crazy person. If it were someone else, they would worry about this at all and give up 20% of the military base. Of course, they are not giving up now, but can they hold on for three months? Everyone lamented the courage of this guy Li Wei, but many people didn't think much of his plan, but those people from the earth would feel that this is the most correct way. If the current situation is still the same as before If you don't give up anything at the time, that is a terrible thing, and it is impossible to win at all. They lose because they care too much about these things. If they win, Cao's House will definitely be on a higher level building. (To be continued..)